By: Ethan Nelson
Concrete slabs lay broken and weeds pop through the cracks of the West Bank’s Cedar Avenue. But $1.75 million worth of changes are coming to the street this summer.
The project will revamp the pedestrian environment along a stretch of the street, with improvements such as better lighting and increased sidewalk accessibility.
“The original idea was to improve just the pedestrian area,” said Chris Engelmann, project engineer for the city of Minneapolis, “[but] we wanted to do more than just fixing cracks and splinters in the sidewalks on Cedar.”